Poland-based Summa Linguae has acquired Kommunicera for USD 2m, an “almost identical” language service provider to expand into the Nordics. CEO highlights investment in NMT, API integrations and Blockchain. Continue reading
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The industry is gradually moving towards Autonomous Localization, a process with minimal human work required, and the ideal one-click localization solution clients demand. Continue reading
EU’s IATE database has been revamped for increased user-friendliness and responsive design, better technology under the hood for more powerful search and filtering options, enhanced data reliability, and open connectivity via APIs, among others. Continue reading
Italian language industry association AITI conducted a survey of over 500 translators and interpreters, and published its findings on rates, income and technology use, and more. Continue reading
Court orders UK language service provider Language Empire to pay damages for diverting significant sales away from its rival, thebigword, via copycat websites. Continue reading
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Media localizer BTI Studios steps up pace of acquisitions, buys German dubbing studio Berliner Synchron in bid to boost presence in a market with a long history of dubbing. Continue reading
August 2018 sees ZOO Digital and XTM International welcome a new Executive Director of Sales for North America and Director of Business Development. Meanwhile, Lingo24 added a new Head of Consulting, Europe, and Locaria recently appointed a new Director Of Business Development. Continue reading
A complaint against US interpretation provider Global Linguist Solutions alleges poor treatment of workers in Kuwait, while a former recruiter of interpreters is indicted by army prosecutors for foul play in money-making scheme. Continue reading
Japan’s largest language services provider posts double digit revenue growth on the back of 2017 acquisition and a rebound in its Conventions business. Continue reading
After a challenging 2016, UK-based Alpha CRC rebounds from losses to post modest profit for the full year 2017. Company says modern workflow tools and agile working may create a degraded environment for translators. Brexit not considered a serious risk. Continue reading
UK-based Capita Translation and Interpreting posted revenues of GBP 16.6m and an operating profit of GBP 1.55m for 2017. CEO forecasts double digit EBITDA margins in 2018. Continue reading
Montréal-based OXO Translations acquires Ccaps, a marketing and software language service provider with offices in Brazil and the US. Continue reading
Half-year revenues at Media localizer ZOO Digital up 17% driven by adoption of cloud-based dubbing and a sales mix shift to localization. Earnings declined due to heavy investment in order to capture future market share. Continue reading
As AI is booming, the world’s largest natural language processing conference doubled in size this year and attracted 2,500 researchers. Global tech companies came looking for fresh talent. And research teams from across the globe battled it out on shared machine translation tasks. Continue reading
The US State Department is looking for 1,000 freelance linguists to renew the one-year contracts it first awarded in October 2017. Up to USD 20m has been earmarked in total with individual limit set at USD 150,000 annually. Continue reading
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